LEADER 02581nam 22005294a 450 001 9910815959403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-9927-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000481119 035 $a(EBL)322596 035 $a(OCoLC)476120203 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000154787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10417131 035 $a(PQKB)10978798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL322596 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10202553 035 $a(OCoLC)437193735 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC322596 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000481119 100 $a20060517e20061991 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFilm hieroglyphs $eruptures in classical cinema /$fTom Conley, with a new Introduction 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991. 311 $a0-8166-4970-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Hieroglyphs Then and Now; Introduction; 1. The Filmic Icon: Boudu sauve? des eaux; 2. The Law of the Letter: Scarlet Street; 3. Dummies Revived: Manpower; 4. The Nether Eye: Objective, Burma!; 5. Facts and Figures of History: Paisan; 6. The Human Alphabet: La be?te humaine; 7. Decoding Film Noir: The Killers, High Sierra, and White Heat; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index 330 $aAt a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directors-Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini-tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design 606 $aMotion picture plays$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMotion picture plays$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.4309 700 $aConley$b Tom$0168200 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815959403321 996 $aFilm hieroglyphs$94042481 997 $aUNINA